Card and address book.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIOE;

JOHN F. DAVIDSON, OF ROUND MOUNTAIN, NEVADA.

CARD AND ADDRESS BOOK.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN F. DAvIDsoN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Round Mountain, in the county of Nye and State of Nevada,have invented new and useful Improvements in Card and Address Books, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates, to pocket memorandum books, and particularly toa card dispensing and receiving book.

The Object of the present invention is to provide and design a deviceadapted to contain a. number of printedtickets or cards bearing Similarinscriptions, and which cards are separable from stubs in the book sothat they may be dispensed; to provide a book provided with leaveswhereon may be attached cards which have been provided with an adhesivesubstance along one edge or on their backs; and to provide means forpreventing the cards, which are attached to the stubs of the book andwhich have upon their backs an adhesive substance, from sticking to theother leaves.

The invention consists of the parts and the construction and combinationof parts, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, havingreference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is aperspective view of the improved card book. Fig. 2 is a top edge view ofa book with another style of stitching;

In the present illustrated embodiment of my invention 2 represents asuitable back or cover which may be applied to the book to protect theinner leaves, which leaves are comprised of a plurality of cards 3 ofappropriate length and width, and which are provided at one side withstubs 4 to which the back 2 may be stitched or otherwise secured, as bystaples 5.

The several cards 3, comprising a leaf, may be entirely severed alongtheir longitudinal edges, as at 6, or they may be perforated. They areconnected 'by a line of perforations 7' to the stub 4: of the leaf.

Alternately with the several leaves formed by the cards 3, the book isprovided with a number of fly leaves 8 of approximately equal Width withthe card leaves. Upon the back edge of the cards 3 and adjacent theirperforations 7, by which they are connected to the stub 4, there isapplied a Zone of adhesive material 9, such as mucilage or Specificationof Letters Patent.

Application filed April 6,

Patented Nov. 5, 1912.

1911. Serial No. 619,269.

any other gummy substance, which, when moistened, will cause the card toadhere when pressed against another substance.

The salient feature of the present invention is to provide a number ofseparable cards upon which may be printed advertising'matter or thenames of firms or perso-ns when the card is to be used for businesspurposes, or upon which may be inscribed the names of persons or firmswhen the card is to be used as a visiting card.

Manifestly, a card may bear upon it printed matter, such as wouldindicate that the card is, a ticket, coupon or transfer; or in fact anydesirable printed matter or literature or design may be applied. Henceit will be seen that by these books the owner may inscribe upon theseparable cards 3, his name. By making the cards and the material ofwhich the entire book is composed of comparatively thin, but very strongmaterial, a great number of cards may be carried in the pocket in a bookwithout inconvenience. When the owner or possessor desires to present acard to a person, he merely separates a card, as 3, along its line ofperforations 7 adjoining the stub 4:, and delivers the card to anotherperson. At the same time the recipient, possessing one of these books,dispenses from his book a card; the receiver pastes the card in hisbook. It willbe seen then that by these books visiting and businesscards o-r tickets, which it is desired to keep or preserve, may bereadily applied permanently into a book so that the owner of a book hasat all times ready access to the cards and the danger of loss bymisplacemet or destruction is greatly reduced.

It may be desirable to interpose between succeeding fly leaf, as 8, awaXed paper 11, or sone other material which will effectively preventthe adhesive material 9 from becoming stuck to the succeeding fly leafas will sometimes occur in moist climates, or when any other conditionsact to soften the adhesive material on the back of the several cards.The waXed paper, or other appropriate material 11, is perforated along astub so that when the preceding cards to which the adhesive material isapplied have all been removed the non-sticking web 11 may be severedalong its lineal perforations and removed from the book.

the leaf-composing cards, as 3, and the next.

The Object of making the fly leaf of full width, or equal to the widthof the combined stub 4 and its attached card, is so that when a numberof cards are inserted successivcly along the face of a fly leaf theouter edge of the card may be approximately alined with the exterioredge of the fly leaf. \Vhen a number of the fly leaves have been filledwith the cards the convenience of turning over a great number of theinserted cards 3 is facilitated by reason of the fact that when thepossessor wishes to find any particular inserted card he may turn thesuccessive fly leaves and thus move at one tine allof the cards whichmay be attached to the fly leaf.

Preferably the area of the cards 3 will be so designed that at thebottom of the pageforming card there will be remaining, when all of thecards 3 of a given page have been removed, a relatively narrow strip ortongue 10 of paper connected to the stub portion 4, which tongue can betorn away at any time so as to expose an area 10' at the lower portionof each page S. This is for the purpose of enabling the possessor of thebook to inscribe, in the area indicated at 10', such notes as, forinstance, dates or certain classifications which he may desire toindicate upon the lower portion of the leaves 8. In

,this way the eXposed area 10' can be readily discerned at the bottom ofthe page 8 even though all the cards 3 may still remain attached totheir adjacent stub 4, if the several tongues 10 are removed.

The waxed Sheet 11 may be omitted in manufacturing the book when thepaste on the back of the cards is of such a nature that it will notreadily adhere to the fly leaves.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

1. A book comprising a plurality of main lcaves each of which is in turnsub-divided into a plurality of smaller ndcpendcntly 4 separable cards,each of said. main leavcs having a weakened line near and parallel withone of its long edges, and said cards having a narrow Zone on one sideof their rear surfaces supplied with an adhesive; a plurality offly-leaves alternating with the main leaves, and non-adhesive stripsseparating the adhesive backs of the cards from the fly-leaves, saidmain leaves, fiy-leaves and strips being bound in book form.

2. A book comprising a plurality of main leaves each of which is in turnsub-divided into a plurality of smaller independontly separable cards,each of said main lcaves having a weakened line near and parallel withone of its long edges, and said cards having a narrow Zone on one sideof their rear surfaces supplied with an adhesive; a plurality offly-leaves, alternating with the main leaves, and non-adhesive stripsseparatmg the adhesive backs of the cards from the fiy-leaves; said mainleaves, flyleavcs and strips being bound in book forn, said book havingstubs for the strip, and said strips being connected to their stubs byweakened lines, and a memorandum section bound in with the leaves andstrips at one end of each series of cards.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

JOHN F. DAVIDSON. VVitnesses ZITA HAs'rNss, CHARLES EDELMAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Comnssioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

